Nourishing your body is about understanding food, chemistry and what you body needs. This Nutrition section features food basics, including food system and policy, digestion, supplements, plant-based diet, weight loss, detox, your relationship to food, and more.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways…that I help you get and stay healthy, that is. That’s right – true love is not just making a nice dinner for that special someone, but making sure you’re making a healthy meal that won’t clog arteries or intestines. After all, you want your significant other to have a healthy ticker with which to love you right back.
Here’s a delicious dinner plan to put some love on the plate this V-Day: Read More…
It’s easy to remember to stay hydrated in the summer – the temperature reminds you that you’re thirsty and need water – while in the winter, water is the last thing on our minds. But as we turn on the heaters to keep us warm, we start to get dry skin and chapped lips and we don’t know why. We’re in serious need of hydration. Read More…
It IS possible to have a healthy Thanksgiving meal that won’t put you in a coma or slide you face first into flu season, without sacrificing taste. Every year, we gather as a family to cook and eat to our heart’s content, and the menu is so nutritional that we avoid illness and weight-gain while keeping the flavor and fun. If you’re not “healthifying” your holiday meals, now is a good time to start, and see if you can keep “health” and “lose 20 lbs.” off of your New Year’s Resolutions list. Read More…
Hippocrates, the father of Western medicine, said, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” Did you know that many diseases can be avoided simply by adopting a whole foods plant-based diet? In this episode, we upgrade your mind about the misconception that a meal is not a real meal unless it has meat, and tell you why the plant-based diet offers everything you need to achieve and maintain optimal health. Read More…
This episode tackles one of the biggest misconceptions when it comes to nutrition: Protein equals meat. Understanding what protein really is and where to get it is a huge mind upgrade for your path to optimal cellular nutrition and one that you can go into in more detail in our Protein Myth articles: The Protein Myth Part 1 provides examples of world-class athletes and where they get their protein, The Protein Myth Part 2 discusses exactly what protein is, and Part 3 goes into quality sources. Also, check out our HFood section in the Nutrition category of the site, so you can read nutritional profiles on the foods we mention in this video, and stop by Silvie’s Kitchen for some recipe ideas.
Upgrading your mind on this concept will not only reduce your risk of having a heart attack and developing cancer, but it will also improve your overall health and digestion and help you maintain your ideal weight effortlessly. Read More…
January is gone and now you’ve arrived at a familiar checkpoint: Did your diet work? If it did and you lost the weight you wanted to as your resolution, will you stick to it and keep the weight off? Forget all of those thoughts once and for all. Diets don’t work. Lifestyle changes do. Read More…
To blend or to juice? That is always the question we get from our readers – and we answer it in full detail for you right here.
The negative chatter in your head causes emotional ups and downs. Learn to take control of it now.
Limes, lemons, grapefruits and oranges – they all have their place on your table, but in very different proportions than you might think.
It’s not just your body that needs maintenance – your energy needs a check-up too.
Stress is at the root of most chronic disease. Learn how to cope with these simple steps.
